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...they’re certainly not the only two clubs with beef. 1) The Catholic Student Association vs. the Chinese Students Association. The CSAs are tired of people confusing their events—that wine is not to celebrate Chinese New Year. And it’s not cheap. 2) The Harvard Advocate vs. The Harvard-Radcliffe Science Fiction Association. For a publication whose logo is a winged-horse, the Advocate contains far too little magic and far too few spaceships. 3) Harvard-Radcliffe Society for Creative Anachronism vs. Current Magazine. What’s so special about the present...
...Zealand's eight political parties support the deal, but polls show that fewer than half of voters do. Critics fear a flood of cheap goods and farm produce, and point to China's poor record on the environment and human rights. United Future party leader Peter Dunne is boycotting the Beijing signing ceremony in protest at China's crackdown in Tibet, but says abandoning the pact would be "a classic case of cutting off your nose to spite your face...
...very least, Kenyans know what they are betting on. Thanks to a proliferation of cheap handsets and pay-as-you-go services, it seems that practically every Kenyan has a mobile phone, and most who do are Safaricom customers. The company has made its buck by thinking small, allowing Kenyans to buy airtime in increments as little as 20 Kenyan shillings - about $0.30. It has found success by focusing on ways that even the simplest mobile phones can change people's lives. Airtime credit can be traded as currency and Safaricom also has a feature, called M-Pesa ("pesa...
...story” features a reporter infiltrating a honeybee colony while disguised as an “unpollinated daffodil,” while a photo essay explores the outsourcing of the “American lava lamp industry to the islands of Indonesia, where lava is cheap, plentiful, and harvested by thousands of natives.” A spread features a picture of a lion composed of many smaller pictures of human breasts, described by the Lampoon Web site as “Boobs you can look at in the dentist’s office...
...boys and girls who casually pick fights, have sex and keep the emergency services fully occupied are often fueled by cheap booze. British youngsters drink their Continental European counterparts under the table: in 2003, according to the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), 27% of British 15-year-olds had been drunk 20 times or more, compared to 12% of young Germans, 6% of Netherlands youth and only 3% of young French. British kids were also involved more frequently in fights (44% in the U.K. to 28% in Germany). They are more likely to try drugs or start smoking young...